Add to ORKGIn 1956, anthropologist Horace Miner published the article for which he is best known, Body Ritual among the Nacirema. This short but groundbreaking essay described personal rituals practiced by a fascinating but poorly understood people. Inspired by Miner\u27s work and based on close-quarters field research, this essay revisits the strange world of the Nacirema. Two of the more legal features of their society are explored: (1) what might be termed the higher-order constitutional design of their society, and (2) the mechanisms of day-to-day maintenance of their social order
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ABSTRACT The medicine dance continues to be the main ritual of the Hai om and many other groups of s...
This article analyses varieties of popular rituals such as rough music, skimmingtons or charivari as...
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data...
THE anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways in which different peoples beha...
The body has remained segregated for several centuries in the history of Western thought because of ...
The principal goal of this research is to elucidate the relationship between ancient Maya social org...
Larry Babits, Dept. of History, will analyze the basic anthropological concept that culture is patte...
This paper argues that customary values are regularly and dramatically challenged in certain traditi...
This paper explores the namata ritual, common among Tolai people in Papua New Guinea’s East New Brit...
The Yaqui of Mexico were early converts to Christianity in New Spain. Yet they came to be regarded w...
Las compensaciones matrimoniales son una institución ritual que toca la totalidad de la vida social ...
Victor Turner has been one of the most influential anthropologists of religion in the 20th century. ...
This paper focuses on the Macumba community's way of making meaning in its Afro-Brazilian cultural c...
The Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela have been an integral part of anthropological debates, a...
Se presenta aquí los resultados del trabajo realizado sobre las implicaciones que el cuerpo posee en...
ABSTRACT The medicine dance continues to be the main ritual of the Hai om and many other groups of s...
This article analyses varieties of popular rituals such as rough music, skimmingtons or charivari as...
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data...
